Job specification term that describes the knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics an individual must possess to perform the job
What are KSAOs?
100
Materials, information, equipment, and human resources required to carry out the work processes
What are inputs?
100
An area of personal capability that enables employees to perform their work successfully
What is a competency?
100
The process of getting detailed information about jobs
What is job analysis?
100
On the Position Analysis Questionnaire, this is where and how a worker gets information needed to perform the job
What is information input?
200
A list of the tasks, duties and responsibilities that a job entails
What is a job description?
200
The process of changing the tasks or the way work is performed in an existing job
What is job redesign?
200
Factual or procedural information that is necessary for successfully performing a task
What is knowledge?
200
An individual's level of proficiency at performing a particular task
What is a skill?
200
According to the Position Analysis Questionnaire, the reasoning, decision making, planning and information processing activities that are involved in performing the job
What are mental processes?
300
Analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service
What is work flow design?
300
A set of duties performed by one person
What is a position?
300
The product of a work unit
What is output?
300
A more general enduring capability that an individual possesses
What is ability?
300
According to the Job Characteristics Model, this is the extent to which a job requires completing a "whole" piece of work from beginning to end
What is task identity?
400
The interface between individuals' physiological characteristics and the physical work environment
What is ergonomics?
400
A standardized job analysis questionnaire containing 194 items that represent work behaviors, work conditions, and job characteristics that can be generalized across a wide variety of jobs
What is the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)?
400
Study of jobs to find the simplest way to structure work in order to achieve maximum efficiency
What is industrial engineering?
400
The Department of Labor's system for classifying jobs, the successor to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
What is O*NET (Occupational Information Network)?
400
According to the Job Characteristics Model, this is the degree to which the job allows an individual to make decisions about the way the work will be carried out
What is autonomy?
500
The term that describes a set of related duties
What is a job?
500
A list of the knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics that an individual must have to perform the job
What is a job specification?
500
According to the Job Characteristics Model, the extent to which an employee receives clear information about performance effectiveness from the work itself
What is feedback?
500
The process of defining the way work will be performed and the tasks that will be required in a given job
What is job design?
500
According to the Job Characteristics Model, this is the extent to which the job has an important impact on the lives of other people